Computerworld – Consumer Reports today said that its lab tests show the Verizon iPhone 4 suffers from a “death grip” problem similar to last summer’s revelations about AT&T’s model. Holding the Verizon model in certain ways can “cause the phone to drop calls, or be unable to place calls, in weak signal conditions,” the...
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IDG News Service – In a sign that hackers, like everyone else, are taking an interest in everything Apple, researchers at Sophos say they’ve spotted a new Trojan horse program written for the Mac. It’s called the BlackHole RAT (the RAT part is for “remote access Trojan”) and it’s pretty easy to find online...
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IDG News Service – It’s been a few years coming, but it looks like China may finally be getting a handle on its spam problem. Once the largest source of the world’s spam, China has been gradually fading off the list of the world’s top spam-producers. Right now Cisco Systems’ IronPort group ranks it...
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